A Baylor associate professor’s collection of Black gospel music will be permanently featured in the new Smithsonian’s National Museum of African-American History and Culture in 2015.
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HOUSTON — It’s the darkest of operas, a powerful and unrelentingly grim work that dares to grapple with the horrors of the Holocaust through a musical descent into the hell that was Auschwitz.
Josh Garrels, Common Grounds’ upcoming sold-out act for Friday, balances his music with his Christian beliefs to appeal to a wide audience.
On Saturday some of the best high school piano talent will perform on campus.
The Baylor/Waco Piano Competition will be held from 8 a.m. to 2:45 p.m. in the Glennis McCrary Music Building and Waco Hall. This year’s event will be the 34th annual competition, and it is sponsored by the School of Music.
By Kat Worrall Reporter With the closing of downtown Treff’s Bar and Grill, Scruffy Murphy’s has gained a new Thursday…
By Chris Lee Los Angeles Times via McClatchy-Tribune LOS ANGELES — To the pop cognoscenti, the French dance-music duo Daft…
LOS ANGELES _ “All bad things must come to an end.” That’s how Motley Crue broke the news it was calling it quits.
The influential, and infamous, L.A. rock band turned Beacher’s Madhouse in Hollywood into a circus Tuesday morning as more than 100 media outlets packed the hot spot to hear the band’s announcement of a 72-date farewell tour.
By Kat Worrall Reporter After the viral Pinterest success of one tribal print sweater, Baylor alumnae Katie Henry and Emily…
Cinema owners have long complained about the length of movie trailers. Now they’re clamping down. New guidelines issued Monday by the National Assn. of Theatre Owners call for limiting the length of movie trailers to two minutes. The guidelines, which the trade group said were designed to “maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of the industry’s marketing efforts,” also call for restricting marketing time for trailers to 150 days prior to the release date of the film, and 120 days for all other in-theater marketing materials. Two exemptions per distributor per year would be allowed for both trailer length and marketing lead time.
The Glennis McCrary Music Building, which frequently houses the sweet harmonies of vocal and instrumental performances, welcomes a new sound this week – the snores of music students.
International students from five continents have found a temporary home at Common Grounds. Though they met as a group for the first time less than two weeks ago, more than 25 students from around the world gathered Wednesday to support one of their group and his acoustic session.
By Abigail Loop Reporter Dallas junior Makenzie Hagestad seems to have made the most of her past relationship troubles. In…
Starting this semester, faculty in the art department will have a chance to show their art on campus separate from the student exhibition.
With the runaway success of “Gone Girl,” Gillian Flynn has arrived.
After more than a year on bestseller lists, her deliciously poisonous ode to a marriage gone bad is heading to the big screen with Ben Affleck starring, David Fincher directing and Flynn writing the screenplay.
For one Baylor student, validation as an artist is starting to feel like reality.
Guitar in hand, Jasper senior Savion Wright was awarded his ticket to Hollywood last week after his audition on season 13 of the hit reality singing competition “American Idol,” a dream Wright said has been a lifetime in the making.
“My whole experience so far now is completely surreal,” Wright said. “It’s been a rollercoaster ride.”
By Kathryn Worrall Reporter Downtown Waco is getting a new bar, but the Yoga Bar will be a healthier —…
Hollywood, we have liftoff.
The 3-D technological wonder “Gravity” and con-artist comedy “American Hustle” each picked up 10 Oscar nominations Thursday, including for best picture. The field of nine top nominees also includes “12 Years a Slave,” “Captain Phillips,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” “Nebraska,” “Dallas Buyers Club,” “Her” and “Philomena.”
The Waco Symphony Orchestra will be performing a production of ‘Bravo Broadway’ tonight at Baylor University’s Waco Hall.
The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Student tickets are still available for $10 and are situated in the upper gallery. The box office at Waco Hall will be open and selling tickets until 8 p.m.
This spring, one Baylor student will have the chance to trade in his textbooks for training sessions with some of the top dogs in the music industry.
With all the excitement and energy surrounding Floyd Casey Stadium’s final game, one near-campus store is helping Baylor look forward to the future.
Harts N Crafts gift shop, arts and craft supply store gives a peek at the process with its original painting of the building of Baylor Stadium.
While most Baylor students are hunkering down to study for final exams, there will be plenty of reason to get out of the library leading up to the holidays.
Baylor is hosting several Christmas related events over the course of the next few days, including a to-scale model train exhibition, a traditional retelling of the story of Christ and a guest appearance by Santa Claus.
For master’s candidate Kathryn Parsley, music is the underlying connection between all mankind, and she’s made it her goal to follow it.
Parsley grew up in Mesa, Ariz., and started singing in her junior high choir.
“I joined because I wanted to get to know a boy. For the record, it never worked out with him,” Parsley said.
A new study by the Library of Congress reveals some disquieting facts about the country’s early film heritage.
Of the nearly 11,000 silent feature films that were produced and distributed in the United States from 1912 to 1929, the report says, only 3,311 are known to exist today — and fewer than half of those, 1,575, exist in their original 35mm release format.
Imagine a world without people such as Beethoven, Picasso, Morgan Freeman and the Beatles.
All of these people are artists. They are painters, musicians and actors — people who create art for others to enjoy. However, all these artists had to learn their craft from somewhere.
A recent bill approved by the House of Representatives committee will cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Frisco senior Kira Rockwell went to a friend’s house before the fall semester began with plans to play board games.
When she left, she had an interview for an opportunity to step closer to her dream. Now, Rockwell is helping kids reach theirs.
The theater major hopes to bring community centers to areas lacking fine arts emphasis in school systems someday.
A memorabilia collector is selling the gray wool suit Gene Kelly wore as he joyously danced in a downpour in the Hollywood musical “Singin’ in the Rain.”
The suit is expected to sell for more than $20,000 when Heritage Auctions offers it up Friday in Dallas. Memorabilia collector Gerry Sola has had the suit for more than four decades after buying it for $10 at a 1970 sale of MGM props and wardrobe items following the sale of the studio to financier Kirk Kerkorian.
The coffee in Waco just got a little bit better.
Dichotomy Coffee & Spirits, which ran out of Croft Art Gallery for the past year, finally opened its doors last week at its own official storefront on Austin Avenue in downtown Waco.
The specialty coffee shop, which also serves food and alcoholic beverages, was founded with the mindset of bringing a high-grade product to its customers while giving them a comfortable, unique environment in which to enjoy it.
When there is more turkey on the table, there are fewer turkeys in the theater.
In other words, it’s December again.
This is the time of year when Hollywood releases a glut of superior product on a suspecting public.
With Thanksgiving rapidly approaching, there is one thing that really puts people into the autumn spirit: pumpkin.
Pumpkins are no longer just for decorations and pie. It seems like during the fall season, pumpkin-flavored things are everywhere, and people are loving it.
For some, Thanksgiving means turkey and stretch pants, but for others, it means despair and hunger.
Dave’s Burger Barn, located on 600 N Patricia St. is working to help those families. “We will be opening the restaurant doors to anyone in need who would like a free traditional Thanksgiving meal,” Tim Quiroz, owner and operator of Dave’s Burger Barn, said. “Food will be offered from 11 to 2 p.m.”
